Discovering stock market trading rules using multi-layer perceptrons

  • Authors:
  • Piotr Lipinski

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

  • Venue:
  • IWANN'07 Proceedings of the 9th international work conference on Artificial neural networks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to extracting stock market trading rules from stock market data. Trading rules are based on two multi-layer perceptrons, one generating buy signals and one generating sell signals. Inputs of these perceptrons are fed with values of technical indicators computed on historical stock quotations. Results of a large number of experiments on real-life data from the Paris Stock Exchange confirm that the model of trading rules is reasonable and the trading rules are able to generate reasonable trading signals, not only over a training period, used in the training process, but also over a test period, unknown during constructing trading rules. Moreover, trading strategies defined by such trading rules are profitable and often outperform the simple Buy&Hold strategy.